We joke about enjoying the quiet. The thing is back then the likes of Danny Alexander and Steve Webb did exactly that, quietly got shit done. That's Labour's real failure. They actually had… (View Post)

There's a pretty good article here on Labour's failure in Yorkshire. 'Toxic on the doorstep': How Yorkshire ditched Labour in one day https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgp249p3… (View Post)

I think there are not a few paper candidates elected for the Greens, too. It will be an interesting exercise to see what difference (if any) having the most inexperience set of councillors in living … (View Post)

And in a lot of those results, the split vote between Labour and the Greens is what got Reform elected. That's one way of looking at it; another is that attacking opponents isn't what gets … (View Post)

I think that's wrong. But it's not on the cards in the next few years: our current government is too timid even to have implemented serious planning reform. Circumstances change, though. An… (View Post)